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Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo in a Senate hearing in Pasay City on May 22, 2024. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News

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Jauhn Etienne Villaruel

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1719543001492171929757521220240522-guo-alice-senate-MD-7.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo in a Senate hearing in Pasay City on May 22, 2024. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo in a Senate hearing in Pasay City on May 22, 2024. <em>Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA (UPDATED) — It&#x27;s game over for controversial Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo, as far as Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian is concerned.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/10/-pogo-politics-suspected-china-ties-of-tarlac-town-mayor-alarms-solon-1016">• &#x27;POGO-politics&#x27;: Suspected China ties of Tarlac town mayor alarms solon</a></div><p>On Thursday, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) confirmed that Guo and Chinese national <span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;--darkreader-inline-color:#bfb9b1;--darkreader-inline-bgcolor:#181a1b">Guo Hua Ping, who entered the Philippines in 2003, are the same person, based on a fingerprint analysis. </span></p><div><span id="isPasted"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/6/27/fingerprints-of-alice-guo-guo-hua-ping-match-hontiveros-says-1726">• Fingerprints of Alice Guo, Guo Hua Ping match: NBI</a></span></div><p>&quot;Ngayon masasabi na talaga natin na one hundred and one percent na si Guo Hua Ping ay si Alice Guo,&quot; said Gatchalian on Friday.</p><p>It was Gatchalian, in late March 2024, who first suspected and sought an investigation into the possible link of Guo to the raided Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) hub in Tarlac&#x27;s southernmost town.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/3/26/gatchalian-suspects-mayor-s-link-to-raided-pogo-ops-in-tarlac-1211">• Gatchalian suspects Tarlac town mayor has links to raided POGO</a></div><p>But what happens next to the Bamban mayor, who is currently <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/6/3/ombudsman-suspends-bamban-mayor-guo-2-others-over-raps-filed-by-dilg-1531">suspended</a> by the Office of the Ombudsman pending an investigation into her alleged POGO ties?</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/6/25/guo-camp-to-file-ca-petition-vs-ombudsman-suspension-1447">• Guo camp to file CA petition vs Ombudsman suspension</a></div><p>Gatchalian floated three possible scenarios that could happen to Guo.</p><p>According to the senator, Guo may not be deported immediately due to the mounting criminal cases filed, and set to be filed, against her.</p><div><strong>QUO WARRANTO<br/></strong></div><p>First, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has to cancel her birth certificate to support the quo warranto case to be filed by the Office of the Solicitor General.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/10/comelec-suggests-quo-warranto-case-vs-mayor-with-citizenship-issue-1543">• Comelec suggests quo warranto case vs mayor with citizenship issue</a></div><p>The quo warranto case will effectively oust Guo as Bamban mayor.</p><p>Gatchalian said Guo will then have to face locally the human trafficking, money laundering, tax, and quo warranto cases against her before she can be deported.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/6/21/guo-other-officials-face-human-trafficking-complaint-1059">• Human trafficking complaint filed against Guo</a></div><p>&quot;Itong mga kasong ito haharapin niya muna ito bago sya i-deport sa ibang bansa,&quot; Gatchalian said.</p><div><strong>&#x27;WARRANTLESS ARREST&#x27;</strong></div><p> Meanwhile, former Sen. Leila de Lima, a former Justice Secretary, said the Bureau of Immigration (BI) can put Guo under warrantless arrest due to &quot;serious&quot; visa violations.</p><p>&quot;[T]he immediate legal remedy against her is a warrantless arrest by the Bureau of Immigration for serious violations of her visa conditions, and detention at the immigration deportation facilities pending her trial for the multiple criminal offenses she has committed,&quot; De Lima said on X, formerly Twitter.</p><p>According to De Lima, the DOJ must act swiftly to detain Guo instead of waiting for the progress of her other criminal cases. </p><p>&quot;The DOJ should just treat this, initially, as a simple immigration case, where a legal warrantless arrest on Guo can be enforced... instead of still waiting for the filing of criminal cases against her with the courts,&quot; De Lima explained.</p><div><strong>STATE WITNESS?<br/></strong></div><p>Gatchalian also floated the possibility of Guo serving as a state witness in exchange for a lower penalty for her alleged crimes.</p><p>&quot;Puwede yan. Hindi siya maabswuelto for sure, hindi makakawala, pero siguro puwedeng pababain yung sintensya niya at gawing mas mababa yung penalty. Pero pwede,&quot; Gatchalian said.</p><p>However, Gatchalian said it would be difficult to trust Guo as a state witness given her repeated &quot;lying&quot; during the Senate hearings.</p><p>&quot;Wala siyang konsensya. Kaya niya magsinungaling bawat oras, bawat segundo para manloko at magawa niya yung criminal activities niya,&quot; he said.</p><p>Now cornered, Gatchalian said Guo should come out and reveal who are the masterminds behind the massive POGO operation in Bamban, which is said to be linked to another illegal POGO hub in Porac, Pampanga.</p><p>&quot;Dapat sabihin niya na lang lahat lahat ng nalalaman nya sa POGO hub dahil yung mga mastermind nakawala pa rin eh,&quot; he said.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/6/26/hontiveros-nbi-records-show-another-alice-leal-guo-2325">• Hontiveros: NBI records show another Alice Leal Guo</a></div><p>Guo must face the Senate panel again during its next hearing, happening in the next 2 weeks, after Sen. Risa Hontiveros issued a subpoena against her.</p><p data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px;line-height:21px;overflow-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;--darkreader-inline-color:#c8c3bc;--darkreader-inline-bgcolor:#181a1b">Guo has insisted that she is a Filipino. She denied that she is a Chinese spy or that she had alleged links to illegal POGOs. </p><div data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px;line-height:21px;overflow-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;--darkreader-inline-color:#c8c3bc;--darkreader-inline-bgcolor:#181a1b"><a data-darkreader-inline-color="" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/20/guo-denies-being-a-chinese-spy-i-am-a-filipino-i-love-my-country-1917" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(93, 155, 192);text-decoration:none;--darkreader-inline-color:#69a2c5">[EXCLUSIVE] Guo denies being a Chinese spy: &#x27;I am a Filipino, I love my country&#x27;</a><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/regions/2024/6/19/mayor-alice-guo-insists-she-is-not-hua-ping-guo-1927" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(93, 155, 192);text-decoration:none;--darkreader-inline-color:#69a2c5" data-darkreader-inline-color=""></a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"/><a data-darkreader-inline-color="" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/regions/2024/6/19/mayor-alice-guo-insists-she-is-not-hua-ping-guo-1927" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(93, 155, 192);text-decoration:none;--darkreader-inline-color:#69a2c5">Mayor Alice Guo insists she is not Hua Ping Guo</a> </div><p data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px;line-height:21px;overflow-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;--darkreader-inline-color:#c8c3bc;--darkreader-inline-bgcolor:#181a1b">Guo&#x27;s lawyer Stephen David said &quot;it’s too early to comment on the issue&quot; because they have yet to examine the documents and witnesses. </p><p data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px;line-height:21px;overflow-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;--darkreader-inline-color:#c8c3bc;--darkreader-inline-bgcolor:#181a1b">&quot;We can only do this in the proper forum. Anyway, expected na naman na these documents will be used in the Legal Arena. Then, that is were we can comment on this issue,&quot; he said in a statement.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO: </strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dXy_M851cfg?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>Sen. Gatchalian floated three possible scenarios that could happen to Guo. </p>

Sen. Gatchalian floated three possible scenarios that could happen to Guo.

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Deportation, jail time or plea deal: What happens next to 'Chinese' mayor Alice Guo?

Jauhn Etienne Villaruel,

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Published Jun 28, 2024 11:42 AM PHT

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